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Pizza.com Bids Hit $403,500 With 6 Days to Go!

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I dropped in on Sedo today and lo and behold, much to my pleasant surprise, I saw that Pizza.com was up for sale on a 7-day auction.  With over 6 days to go bids have already ramped up to $403,500 with 23 total bids thus far.  This is going to be a fun one to watch and write about.  I can’t wait to see who ends up winning the bid.  Will it be PizzaHut, Papa John’s, Domino’s or a domain name investor.  The suspense is killing me.  Truly, this is going to be one of the big domain name sales of the year and it won’t surprise me one bit to see the winning sales price top $1 million.  

Free 4-Letter Dot Com to Commentor With Best Sales Price Estimate for Pizza.com 

I invite your opinions on this one.  I’ll give the 4-letter dot com domain name IBXZ.com to the site visitor that comes the closest to guessing the sales price for Pizza.com.  It it never meets the reserve price and doesn’t sell, I’ll give the domain name to the site visitor that guesses closest to the ending price when the auction expires in 7 days. 

To be eligible to win you must click on the blue button at the bottom of this article and file your estimated sales price in the form of a comment to this article.  Please provide more than just a guess at the sales price.  Feel free to tell us what you think about the domain name and why you think it will sell at the price you guessed.  In the event that two people guess the same price the winner will be the first person to submit the price.   You can keep up with the domain auction by visiting Sedo or reading our article posts here.

Widgets.com Bidding Peaks at $175,100 With No Sale

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The eBay auction for Widgets.com closed without meeting the reserved price. A total of 66 bids took place over the course of the 7-day auction, with the 66th bid coming in at $175,100. Since that wasn’t enough to surpass the reserve price the domain name went unsold. The auction drew an amazing 2,890 visits, so it was obvious the seller did a good job of pre-promoting his auction, as most domain auctions on Ebay attract less than 150 visitors.

In more news, my research project on determining the value of 4-letter domain names on Ebay versus Sedo and TDNAM.com is nearing an end. I’m choosing to keep great 4-letter domain names like PGAU.com and selling off 4-letter domains that contain an X, Y, Z, K, Q or V in them. Ten recent sales of these type of 4-letter dot com’s on TDNAM.com averaged only $60 each. Consistently, sales of similar 4-letter domain names on Ebay fetch $52 to $62 each, thus the market for these type of 4-letter domains in these two forum (i.e., Ebay and TDNAM), where domains get very little traffic exposure during a limited period of time, run in the $50 to $60 range. All of these domain names have a true value much greater than this, for there is only a limited number of 4-letter domain names.

An observation of sales on Sedo.com for similar domains reveals that the sellers are setting most of the domains that fall under this category (i.e., 4-letter dot coms with X, Y, Z, K, Q or V) create a reserve price of $60 (basically what the names go for on Ebay or TDNAM.com) and then once they get the $60 bid they decline the bid and push the domain name into a 7-day auction, whereby they gain much more exposure and end up going for a much higher selling price. It’s all about exposure and marketing baby, and this is one excellent way of doing it. For reference, and as a general footnote, you cannot put a domain name into a 7-day auction on Sedo until it receives a bid. An example of what I’m talking about can be seen in RZOR.com, which with 2 days remaining on its 7-day Sedo auction has 2 bids and is at $300. Examples of the $60 starting point can be found with NVMU.com and HXOE.com, which have 2 days remaining and are still at their single bid of $60 each. Both will likely go for more.

Anonymous.net Bids Hit $35,000

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With 4 hours to go on its Sedo auction, Anonymous.net has hit $35,000. Actually, the domain name seller was pretty wise. He was able to get his buyer up to $35,000 before going to auction. The original bidder remains the only bidder with just 4 hours to go in a 7-day auction. On the one hand the buyer is likely relieved. On the other he must be wondering if he has overpaid. On another auction of a dictionary word .net domain name, alimony.net is up to $3,600 with 2 bids and 4 days left on the auction.

Have you been wondering lately what the value of a 3-digit numerical domain might be? The owner of 657.com has placed his domain on a 7-day auction and already has 6 bids in its first day. With just a little over 6 days remaining, bidding is already up to $7,500. Just 2 years ago I could have registered 3-digit numerical domain names all day long and was too stupid to see the value. Even a 3-digit numerical .net name has value. With about 2 hours remaining on a 7-day auction, 367.net has 20 bids and is up to $865. Sorta crazy, huh?

I’m not sure what YW.com ended up selling for the other day. I haven’t been able to confirm it. But the last time I checked, about a day before the auction expiration, bids were up to $81,000. BCE.com, a sweet 3-letter dot com, is going to close in 2 days. The highest bid is currently $15,505.

GayWedding.com Sells for $10,000

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GayWedding.com, a two-word dot com focused on the theme of gay weddings, a topic in the news almost daily these days, sold on Sedo yesterday for $10,000. A one-word dictionary domain name, Persistent.com, sold for $6,100. Two 4-letter domain names went for above $800, with Xiny.com going for $1,000 and eluo.com going for $877. Two domains that went for more than I would have thought were a 3-letter .us domain name, ogc.us, that went for $751 and a 4-letter .net domain name, sagi.net, that went for $1,100. It goes to show that 3-letter domain names are valuable, regardless the extension and a 4-letter .net can be very valuable if it ends in an i — which could always stand for inc. or incorporated. Thus, more than likely sagi.net will be used for a company name one day.

Younger.com Sells for $75,000 on SEDO

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Wow! Younger.com, a single word dictionary word domain name, sold on Sedo.com today for $75,000. Two domain name auctions I’m watching right now at Sedo.com involve a rare 2-letter domain name, yw.com, which has skyrocketed today to $75,000 and still has 6 days and 14 hours before the 7-day auction expires. The second is a 3-letter domain name, lkd.com, which has shot to $12,005 today with 2 days and 13 hours remaining on its 7-day auction. Both domain names will obviously end up being sold for much more, depending on a host of variables, the mos important one being time.

My zoles.com has 15 hours remaining on the auction and its highest bid still stands at $1,200. I’ve had over 543 reviews of the domain name page over the past week. Although traffic has been amazing to this great domaiin name, only one bidder (who has bid twice) has bid on this great brandable 5-letter domain name thus far.